In a day and age where people routinely post their thoughts on Facebook, an unlinkable, unsearchable, corporate-controlled walled-“garden”, I’m a big fan of owning your own blog. Not only does it give you full creative control, but it’s free of...

Purchase a pre-installed image of this tutorial and check out our new knowledge base WordPress Now. What We’re Not Addressing BitNami Cloud: I’m not using the BitNami Cloud to launch an AWS AMI with WordPress. If you’re interested in AWS...

Purchase a pre-installed image of this tutorial and check out our new knowledge base WordPress Now. Estimating Costs If you’re new to AWS, you should be able to run your blog at AWS in their free usage tier for one...

Purchase a pre-installed image of this tutorial and check out our new knowledge base WordPress Now. Optimizing Your AWS Instance Once your WordPress site is basically up and running well, there are a few more things that you may want...

Purchase a pre-installed image of this tutorial and check out our new knowledge base WordPress Now. Activate Amazon CloudFront CDN with S3 What is a CDN? The goal of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service is to deliver your static...